End piece for metallic bedsteads.



No. 910,999. PATENTED JAN-23, 1906.

W. F. BERNSTEIN. END PIECE FOR METALLIC BEDSTBADS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5, 1904.

Wit 91 can UNITED STATES PATENT o FIoE. VVILLIAM- F. BERNSTEIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

END PIECE FOR METALLIC BEDSTEADS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed December 5, 1904. Serial No. 235,473.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BERN- STEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful End Piece for Metallic Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an end piece of a metallic bedstead, more particularly the footpiece thereof, having means serving as a barrier for preventing a mattress from moving through said piece and being displaced thereat.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a foot-piece of a metallic bedstead embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of a portion on line m as, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section of a portlon on line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of a portion on a reduced scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a foot-piece or end frame of a metallic bedstead, the same having legs B, top C, braces D D, and hooks E, the latter supporting the frame of the spring bed-bottom and being secured to the castings F, which are of the form of sleeves and tightly embrace the upper portions of the legsB, as usual in such cases. On said castings F are the bosses Gr, which rise therefrom and have therein vertical openings, in which are secured the ends of the transversly-eXtending-rod or cross-bar H, said castings or sleeves having therein horizontal openings receiving the ends of the brace D, it being noticed that said rod or bar is intermediate of the brace D and the top C of the frame A, so as to occupy a position about the foot end of a mattress placed on said spring bed-bottom,

it being seen that said bar forms an abutment for the mattress, and consequently restrains the same from movement through the foot end piece, whereby under ordinary circumstances it retains its position on the bedstead, while it leaves the foot-piece comparatively open and does not materially increase the weight and expense of the bedstead.

In practice the ends of the bar or rod II are turned down into castings F, as are also the ends of the brace D and hooks E, said castings thus being utilized to support said hooks,

which sustain the wire mattress or bed-bottom, as hereinbefore stated, and I obtain a perfectly plain and smooth surface on the top or top rail C of the end piece extending from casting to casting, while said top or top rail C may be made lower than usual. As the hooks E occupy the proper places on the castings or sleeves F to support the wire mattress or bedbottom thereon, said sleeves are not increased in height to support the crossbar H at the operative altitude, since the ends of said bar are turned down, as has been stated, forming depending limbs which enter the vertical openings in the bosses G, and so locate said crossbar, where it is essentially desirable, below the top C without requiring to change the shape of the latter, while also permitting said top to be of reduced height, as also stated.

Various changes maybe made in the details of construction shown without departing from the general spirit of my invention, and I do not, therefore, desire to be limited in each case to the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bedstead of the character stated, a frame, a sleeve on a leg thereof, a verticallyeXtending boss on said sleeve, bed-bottomsupporting means and brace-receiving means on said sleeve at right angles to each other, a cross-bar and a brace, said bar being intermediate of the top rail of said frame and said brace and the latter having an end secured to said sleeve, said cross-bar having on an end, a depending limb which enters said boss and rises therefrom.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, an end piece for a metallic bed, the same comprising in a single element a sleeve having upon one side a hook, a horizontal recess to receive an end of a brace and a bore to receive the leg, and a vertically-extending boss with an opening to receive a depending limb of a cross-bar.

3. In a bedstead, a foot-piece, a brace, a bow-shaped cross-bar between said piece and brace and an end piece comprising in a single element a sleeve, a hook on a side thereof, a vertically-extending boss, a bore in said sleeve to receive the leg of the foot-piece, a horizontal recess to receive an end of said brace and an opening in said boss to receive a depending limb of said cross-bar.

WILLIAM F. BERNSTEIN.

Witnesses.

FREDERICK BUOKNER, J. R. YEAGER. 

